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This document provides design guidance and explores opportunities for using trees to maximize climate adaptation benefits to local communities throughout Metro Vancouver. As a companion to the Urban Forest Climate Adaptation Framework, this guidebook provides illustrations and additional technical guidance to support the design of tree plantings to maximize benefits to local communities throughout Metro Vancouver.

The Future Forest Ecosystems Initiative in partnership with the Forest and Range Evaluation Program of the Ministry of Forests, Land and Natural Resource Operations engaged University of British Columbia researchers to develop a strategy for monitoring forest and rangeland species and ecosystem processes in light of climate change.

Each year the Canadian Climate Forum publishes several Issue Papers (IP) and the first of this year focuses on the impact of climate change on Canadian metropolitan forests. IP#1-2016, authored by Dr. Steve Colombo, addresses a range of interrelated issues including threats from invasive species, the value trees have on air quality and human health, and sustainable management practices.

This report celebrates local actions taken by governments across Canada to anticipate and effectively address wildfire risk. The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction commends local leaders and other collaborators working to reduce the risk of wildfire damage. Their actions are recognized and appreciated.

In this report, Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) makes critical recommendations that will ensure economic opportunity for the forestry sector and its people, while upholding important values that support human health, inclusive growth, and our environment. Released in 2020, this report emphasizes on the opportunities for recovery from the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis and the widespread disruption it caused to the economy and people’s lives. 

In this report, the author places the Natural Regions and Subregions into a dynamic framework, describing how they have responded to climate change in the past and how they are expected to change over the next hundred years. Understanding how Natural Regions and Subregions will change over time will improve conservation planning and facilitate adaptation efforts.

A summary that provides clear guidance about what needs to be done to ensure that protection decisions balance the maintenance of the natural heritage of Canada’s Boreal forest region with industrial development that extracts resources that other nations desire.

The Regional Perspectives Report, led by Natural Resources Canada, provides regional perspectives on how climate change is impacting our communities, environment and economy, and how we are adapting.

Tree planting promises and their role in helping to capture carbon have garnered a great deal of attention. It certainly is more generally acceptable to considerations of "reduction" that may impact our economic growth.

This special report prepared by the British Columbia Forest Practices Board (FPB) advises the provincial government on its three current initiatives. The creation of a Watershed Security Strategy and Fund, modernization of BC’s forestry legislation, and development of a Climate Preparedness and Adaptation Strategy. The report identifies four main issues with current forest practices and four opportunities for improvement.

This issue highlights new analysis of critical seed transfer distances. Tree populations are expected to become increasingly maladapted to local climate conditions as the century progresses. In anticipation of these impacts, many jurisdictions are reviewing and revising their seed transfer systems, which provide guidance regarding the movements of seeds and seedlings for forest regeneration.